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 66 intellectual visions are the stamina of everything you value. Go on, if not for your own sake, yet for ours, who love and admire your works; but, above all, for the sake of the arts. Do not throw aside for any long time the honour intended you by nature to revive the Greek workmanship. I study your outlines as usual, just as if they were antiques.

As to myself, about whom you are so kindly interested, I live by miracle. I am painting small pictures from the Bible. For as to engraving, in which art I cannot reproach myself with any neglect, yet I am laid by in a corner as if I did not exist, and since my Young's Night Thoughts have been published, even Johnson and Fuseli